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C. WHITTINGHAM.

GAS BURNER.

No. 529,003. Patented Nov. 13, 1894.

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.EY .ff A7/M ATVEFNEY IINrrE STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES VHITTINGHAM, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLEVELANDFOUNDRY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GAS-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,003, dated November13, 1894.

Application filed July 18. 1894. Serial No. 517,901. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WHITTING- HAM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cleveland, in thecounty of Cuyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Burners;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription ofthe invention, which will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in gas burners, and the object 0fthe invention is to provide the particular form or style of burner hereshown with a bail or loop centrally in the top thereof, substantially asshown and described and particularly pointed out in the claim. In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the burner, showingthe bail in full lines as it appears when ready to be used and in dottedlines as when it-is down and out of use and out of the way, and thecrimping iron in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a central sectional elevationshowing the bail raised as before and the end of the crimping iron indotted lines held therein. I

The burner in which this improvement appears is a small domestic articlewhich is not usually exceeding four or five inches across and verylight, so as to be easily carried to any room of the house andconveniently attached by a small flexible rubber tube to a gas jet fortemporary uses, such as heating water in case of sickness or otherurgency without kindling a fire in a stove, and for many other uses notnecessary to enumerate, the advantages of such burners being varied andnow generally well known. This burner, however, as formerly made, lackedone element of convenience and utility which has now been supplied, andwhich has materially extended its range of usefulness and serviceabilityand enhanced its value. Thus, as the burner is now constructed itcomprises a cast metal shell or frame A, with short legs -2-, grid bars-3- and burner cap -4-, all cast in one piece. It will be noticed as afeature of this construction that the cap -4 of the burner is on a lowerplane than the top edge of the open work inwardly curved border -5- ofthe shell, and that the four converging grid bars -3- stand in elevationacross the top of the said border and engage the edge of the said cap ata depth of fully half an inch from their top edge or surface. Thisleaves the middle area of cap -4- not only unoccupied but 0n a decidedlylower plane than the top supporting edges of the grid bars, and hencemakes room which is especially well adapted to receive the bail or loopB. This bail is bent inward at its extremities which engage in under thecap -4- at one side of the center thereof and in such relation to two ofthe grid bars -3- that the said bars therefore are in position to serveas back stops or rests' for the bail B when it is raised for use andagainst which it does rest until laid down out of the way, as seen indotted lines Fig. 1. When down it is not only altogether out of the way,but is also out of the flame which proceeds from the edge of the burnercap.

Gas is admitted through the short mixing tube-lO-, which is castintegral with the bowl -12- of the burner, and said bowl is secured tothe cap by a screw passing through their center. The mixed or oxygenizedgas issues between the bowl and cap and sustains a perfectly blue flame.

In use, as for example in heating a crimping iron, the edge of theborder -5- is on a higher plane and serves as a fulcrum for the iron andthe end of the iron engages under the bail. The border and the burnercap are advantageously arranged on different planes as described, sothat this use can be made of the border with the bail B and thereby holdthe iron in supporting position.

In order that there may be a cool part for attachment of the rubber hosewhich carry the gas, I provide a nozzle 14- which is connected with themain bowl and projects in front of the center of the mixing tube -lO-.The connection A-15- of nozzle -l4 with the bowl is built to form ashield to prevent upward escape of the gas at the mouth of the mixingtube and as well to guard againstlghting from above.

when raised and to drop between the ends of 1o the said bars when out ofuse, substantially as set forth.

Vhat I claim is- Vitness my hand to the foregoing specifi- A gas burnerhaving a circular shell frame, cation this 8th day of June, 1894. aburner cap centrally in said frame, grid CHARLES VHITTINGHAM. barshaving their bearing edges above both Witnesses: said parts, and a bailpivoted on one side of GEORGIA SCHAEFFER, said cap and adapted to restagainst said bars M. G. NORTON.

